2018 ECONOMICS HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS
All presentations are in Griffin 6.
Monday, May 14
9:00am Amelia Dana: “Minerals, External Rebel Sponsorship, and Conflict in Sub‐Saharan Africa”
9:45am Morris Reeves: “The Economics of Adult Adoption in Japan”
10:45am Ziqi Lu: “A Dynamic Formalization of the Modernization Hypothesis and Critical Junctures”
11:30am Richard Jin: “How do taxes affect labor supply?”
1:30pm Margo Beck: “Baseball in America”
2:15pm Gregory Mora: “Inequality in CA Colleges”
3:15pm Kathy Bi: “Migration Responses to Hurricane Katrina”
4:00pm Sichao Liu: “Sanctuary Cities: How Sanctuary Policies Impact Immigrant Decision-Making”
Tuesday, May 15
9:00am Helene Hall: “Exchange Rate Risk On Global Bank Lending, Credit Spreads, and Deviations from Covered Interest Parity”
9:45am Abigail Matthew: “Poverty and Pot”
10:45am Naomi Medina-Jaudes: “Empowering Young Ugandans”
1:00pm Louisa Abel: “The Safety Net and Time Use”
1:45pm Peter Lugthart: “Effect of temperature on environmentally‐friendly information seeking and green spending/donation”
2:45pm Yinga Xia: “Informational Cascades and Trendsetting”
3:30pm Yu Bai: “Suppressing the Illicit Antiquities Trade”
